On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 07:50:36AM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
If you have both "new" and "old" messages in the mailbox and want to
clear both of them (marking them as read), I would suggest using
something like
~UO
Clearing "old" will actually set both "new" and "old" messages to
"read".
On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 12:38:25PM -0400, Kurt Hackenberg wrote:
> On 2019-09-06 10:50, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
>
> > Both "new" and "old" are "unread". "read" means neither new nor old.
>
> That sounds familiar. I think that goes back about 40 years, long before
> Mutt, to how spooling of inco
On 2019-09-06 10:50, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
Both "new" and "old" are "unread". "read" means neither new nor old.
That sounds familiar. I think that goes back about 40 years, long before
Mutt, to how spooling of incoming messages was implemented, and the
introduction of the non-standard he
On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 03:23:05PM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
I've some confusion about "read" and "unread" versus "old" and "new".
There are status flags for new and old. Unread messages seem to be
new, but if I read a message it doesn't acquire an "(O)ld" flag,
though it loses its "(N)ew"
I've some confusion about "read" and "unread" versus "old" and "new".
There are status flags for new and old. Unread messages seem to be new,
but if I read a message it doesn't acquire an "(O)ld" flag, though it
loses its "(N)ew" flag.
I've skimmed the manual, and i can't see what the criteri
